ULMA Group
ULMA and the pandemic
These have been hard, difficult months in which the pandemic has challenged our cooperative values. Today, one and a half years later, we can state that we are emerging stronger as a group, an example of solidarity and good practice. We would like to thank everybody at ULMA for your collaboration in dealing with this situation, because that is what has made it possible for us to keep our operations running in a safe working environment.
New image and corporate visual identity for ULMA
Throughout 2020 and the first months of 2021, the Group's Communication Committee worked on and coordinated the project to review the corporate image and visual identity, which has recently been approved by the corporate bodies of the ULMA Group.
60 years that brings us together
2021 will be a special year for all of us. It has been 6 decades since our inception and if there is something to highlight, it is the commitment and enthusiasm to form a common and supportive project through the efforts of all our people. Despite the difficulties we are experiencing as a society, due to the global health crisis, 2021 will be a special year, a year in which we will remember where we came from, so that we can understand where we are going.
Women on the Mujeres de ULMA ULMAen la década de los 60 governing councils
The activity of the ULMA Group companies has always been technical and industrial. Women, in general, have been less present, as they also have on the management and representation bodies. However, since the 1980s, many women have been members of the Governing Councils of our Cooperatives, and some have been president.
Cooperatives and COVID - General Managers
The nine General Managers tell us how the businesses are coping with the COVID-19 pandemic and the situation and degree of upheaval predicted in the medium term
We have reached issue 50 of the begira magazine
ULMA women in the 1960s
These natives of Oñati were three of the first women to work at ULMA in the 1960s. They were members and went to work every day at the offices located at Paseo Otadui. They stopped working at ULMA after they got married. In this interview they tell us what women were like in those days.
New payment system for assisted ULMA Group canteens
We have recently changed our payment system at the assisted canteens of Oñati and Legazpi and beginning on 1 October, payment can be made using a mobile phone as well as a credit card.
Social activity.2019
This section will keep you informed of the social activity that we carry out at ULMA to take care of our personnel and our environment as a way to channel our commitment towards social transformation to a more humane and sustainable model.
Children’s workshops in June, Solidarity collection of eyeglasses for Senegal and Electric Mobility at ULMA
This section provides an update on the activity that your Foundation is undertaking, in collaboration with the employees that comprise ULMA, as a way to channel our commitment with the transformation of society into a more humanized and sustainable model.
Language sessions to learn or improve Basque at the ULMA Group
For many years the ULMA Group has been offering courses to learn and improve Basque. Several employees who taught or attended the 2018-2019 course describe their experience.
Emotional tribute to our Retirees
On June 7, we celebrated a tribute to our retirees. The day was filled with an atmosphere of camaraderie among all. They had the opportunity to reconnect with workmates that they had not seen for a long time, wich stirred lot of emotions.
Charity collections, Blood Donation Campaign, Parenting School eta First Aid Course
In this section, we’ll keep you up to date about what your foundation has been doing, in cooperation with the people of ULMA, as a way to channel our commitment to transforming society into a more human and sustainable model.
Say YES to training - Employability Plan, ULMA Group
Continuous changes in technology, management and the environment in general will transform work spaces in the coming years.
Gender equality, a challenge for Cooperatives
The oñatiarras Cristina Madina and Maixabel Madinagoitia have worked for about 40 years at ULMA. In the 1970s, married women were forced to leave their jobs in cooperatives. At ULMA, these two women were the first to fight to get back to work after marriage.
Idoia Besada, ULMA Medical Imaging
Many people from the Group make their professional career compatible with very demanding hobbies in which they demonstrate that all obstacles can be overcome with talent and hard work.
ULMA Group favours the balance between body and mind
Since April, ULMA employees have been able to participate in yoga sessions imparted by the ULMA Group gymnasium at noon. The teacher and four students relay their experience.
We reward sustainable mobility, Workshops for children in June, Workshops for children in June and Yoga sessions
In this section, we’ll keep you up to date about what your foundation has been doing, in cooperation with the people who make up ULMA, as a way to channel our commitment to transforming society into a more human and sustainable model.
ULMA Group has approved the general policies for using the Basque language
The general policies for using the Basque language have been agreed and defined within a participatory process, with more than 100 people from ULMA. The objective is clear: to make Basque the working language in all ULMA’s centres in the Basque Country and to do it proactively, progressively and comprehensively.
The ULMA Group presents its new Employer Brand image to support its business
The presentation of the Group’s new Employer Brand image is the culmination of the first phase of work led by the ULMA Group’s Brand and Communication area and the People Management area, which has seen the involvement of all the Businesses and, above all, the active participation of their people.
